Igloo Books

2 weeks ago


Sywell, United Kingdom Bonnier Books Full time

**Job title: Buyer (FTC 12 months)**
**Location: Sywell (Hybrid)**
**Working pattern: Flexible, hybrid working with two days per week in the office and three days per week at home**
**Department: Production**

**General Summary**

Want to be part of an AMAZING story?

Igloo Books are the global leader of mass market publishing and a key multi-territory and award-winning Disney Book Group licensee. Our content for children and adults spans the full spectrum of popular categories: illustrated story, activity, novelty, board, fiction, puzzle, reference, gift sets; available in 77 countries across 64 languages. We are proud to be the ‘go to’ publisher for high quality, exciting, volume sales.

If working in a fast-paced environment where we turn ideas and designs into exciting new products is for you, then come and join our production department.

We’re looking for a super organised and self-motivated buyer to join our team on a fixed term contract of 12 months. You’ll be responsible for driving down costs through a multiple of buying initiatives, helping to shape and deliver effective and targeted products for each division and market.

**Key responsibilities**
- Review reprint requests and customer specific quotes supplied by sales ops for projects allocated by the head of buying to ensure all the correct details and specifications are completed, and these are costed out within 48 hours
- Attend quarterly NPD meetings with the rest of the buying team
- Update agreed specifications into Biblio
- Request samples for sales material
- Due to the fast and evolving nature of the business, you’ll need the ability to work under high levels of pressure, to multi-task and to be a strategic thinker.
- Show business awareness to understand the impact of procurement on success
- Maintain the departments SLA’s to other divisions around the business
- As an active member of the Buying team, other ad-hoc buying duties to be fulfilled e.g. new product development across the full publishing programme for Igloo.
- Supporting with any other requirements the team may have.

**Qualifications and Experience**
- Negotiation skills
- Microsoft Office
- Time management
- Attention to and a creative eye for detail
- Regular competitor analysis
- An understanding of pricing and our marketplace
- An in-depth working understanding of Toy Safety Directive (TSD) and how it affects our products
- Strong organisational and problem-solving skills as well as a can-do attitude
- Project/category management project experience over several projects
- Experience in solution finding/trouble shooting
- Attention to detail whilst still managing multiple projects
- Stakeholder influencing
- Building mutually beneficial relationships with suppliers
- Strategic sourcing
- Research and development of all products
- Setting commercial terms
- Delivering maximum sustainable margin
- Demonstrable history of reducing costs and improving procurement processes to ensure all orders are delivered on time
- Strong financial acumen, verbal and written communication skills

Competitive Salary

Working with a team of passionate, talented people

Internal learning and development programmes

Career Development opportunities

Fun social events

At Bonnier Books UK, we believe that every book matters. We love to publish stories and content that open our eyes to new perspectives and bring us closer together. We offer a nurturing home for our authors, illustrators and brand partners, publishing bestselling books for readers and listeners everywhere. We know that fantastic stories can come from anywhere and our purpose is to bring them to as wide an audience as possible, a simple ethos that has led to us becoming one of the country’s leading publishers.

The offspring of Bonnier Books, a family-owned top-15 world publisher headquartered in Sweden, we are inspired by a rich literary heritage but not bound by convention. We think in generations rather than quarters, and strive always to operate in an open, curious way that contributes to the future of the planet and its people. As a climate-neutral publisher we are an active participant in the Science Based Target initiative, committed to a strategy to limit global warming to 1.5 °C.


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